Wheel-runner



(No Model.)

H. HOLLAND.

' WHEEL RUNNER.

No. 272.6915. Patentd Feb, 20,1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HAROLD HOLLAND, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

'WHEEL-RUNNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,691, dated February 20, 1883. Application filed November 23, 1882. (N 0 model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HAROLD HOLLAND, of Lynn, in the county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Wheel Runners, of which the following is a description sulficientlv full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the aceom pan ying d rawings, forming a; part of this specification, in which- Figure 1. is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 an end or front view, representing the improvement in use.

Like letters ofreferenceindicate corresponding parts in the difierent figures of the drawings.

My invention relates to that class of wheelrunners which are employed in converting wheeled vehicles into sleighs, or enabling them to be used when the ground is covered with snow; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a simpler, cheaper, and more eti'ective device of this character is produced thauis 110w in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation, its extreme. simplicity rendering arranged standards or braces m m. The body is also provided with upwardly projecting flanges w for receiving and preventing the wheel from slipping from the runner, and with a shoe, G, attached thereto by the nuts and boltsf; but the shoe may be omitted, if desired. Two U -shaped clamps, J J, are employed for attaching the runner to the wheel, the clamps passing around the fellies of the wheel and being secured by the nuts I, as seen in Fig. l.

Asall wheels are not ofthe same size, in securing the runner it is sometimes necessary to bend the necks d inwardly in order to connect them with the clamps J, thereby tending to curve or bend the bottom or shoe and render the runner less perfect in its operations. The standards or braces m are designed to obviate this difiiculty. and in that respect they form an important feature of my invention, serving to keep the runner straight on its bearing-surface.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claimis- The improved wheel-runner described, the same consisting of the body (3, having the goose-necks d d, provided with the Ushaped clatnpsJ J for attaching the same to the wheel,

the shoe G, provided with the nuts and bolts f for attaching the same to the body, the

flanges w for preventing the wheel from slipping laterally from the runner, and the two vertical braces m m, arranged equidistant from the flanges m, to strengthen and prevent the runner from bending.all beingeonstructed, combined, and arranged to operate substantially as specified.

HAROLD HOLLAND.

Witnesses:

0. A. SHAW, H. E. METCALF. 

